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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT: Paula Deen’s Cook Tells of Slights, Steeped in History
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/us/paula-deens-soul-sister-portrays-an-unequal-bond.html?src=me&ref=generalSAVANNAH, Ga.
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For 22 years, Mrs. Charles was the queen of the Deen kitchens. She helped open the Lady & Sons, the restaurant here that made Ms. Deens career. She developed recipes, trained other cooks and made sure everything down to the collard greens tasted right.
If its a Southern dish, Ms. Deen once said, you better not put it out unless it passes this womans tongue.
The money was not great. Mrs. Charles spent years making less than $10 an hour, even after Ms. Deen became a Food Network star. And there were tough moments. She said Ms. Deen used racial slurs. Once she wanted Mrs. Charles to ring a dinner bell in front of the restaurant, hollering for people to come and get it.
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Now, Ms. Deen, 66, is fighting empire-crushing accusations of racism, and Mrs. Charles, 59 and nursing a bad shoulder, lives in an aging trailer home on the outskirts of Savannah.
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In 2010, Lisa T. Jackson, a white manager working at Uncle Bubbas Oyster House, the restaurant Ms. Deen set up for her brother, Earl Hiers, known as Bubba, voiced claims of racism and sexual harassment in the Deen empire.
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Ms. Jackson told Mrs. Charles that she was paid less than others who helped run the kitchen and who had not been there as long. Those people were white. Ms. Jackson introduced her to S. Wesley Woolf, the Savannah lawyer who would go on to file the suit.
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Much more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/us/paula-deens-soul-sister-portrays-an-unequal-bond.html?src=me&ref=general
Paula Deen needs to make restition to her employees. What a racist, selfish piece of work.
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NYT: Paula Deen’s Cook Tells of Slights, Steeped in History (Original Post)
chimpymustgo
Jul 2013
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I was really moved when I read this woman's account. It's important these stories get told.
chimpymustgo
Jul 2013
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)1. Oh thank God! Someone to hate again besides Zimmerman.
chimpymustgo
(12,774 posts)2. I was really moved when I read this woman's account. It's important these stories get told.
You're not required to hate Paula Deen.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)3. Thanks.